2018 Newsletter

In Switzerland, concerts are held in magnificent auditoriums but also outdoors for villagers to attend and hear. Here is one of the concerts just held in the town of Wadenswil I went yesterday. About 100 people came and, alas, most of them turned out to be more than 60 years old. It`s an aging society here just like Japan. But, Switzerland is accepting foreigners who now constitute more than 30 percent of the population.

・Yamamoto, Raymond. (2016). The Securitization of Japan’s ODA: New Strategies in Changing Regional and Domestic Contexts. In Asplund, A. and Söderberg, M. eds. Japanese Development Cooperation: The Making of an Aid Architecture Pivoting to Asia. 1st ed. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 72-89.